The philosopher is he to whom the highest has descended, and the lowest has mounted up; who is the equal and kindly brother of all.

He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.

Of a truth, men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.

Happy season of childhood! Kind Nature, that art to all a bountiful mother; that visitest the poor man's hut With auroral radiance; and for thy nursling hast provided a soft swathing of love and infinite hope wherein he waxes and slumbers, danced round by sweetest dreams!

Well might the ancients make silence a god; for it is the element of all godhood, infinitude, or transcendental greatness,--at once the source and the ocean wherein all such begins and ends.

The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.